There are 2,000 Scots who, on any given night, are stuck in hospital, who should be home and could be if there was a social care package for them that just isn't there.
Discussing NHS issues and delayed discharge.
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We have no power to control energy prices, but we do have the power to make it easier to heat Scottish homes, and the SNP just haven't delivered on that massive programme to get homes insulated.
If you can build a budget with the backing of as many MSPs as possible, there's a stronger budget for it, and I know that's John Swinney's hope as well.
I worry that their continued refusal to do so will only cause more problems for the institutions they are abandoning, and in the most serious cases, that could result in tragedy.
With the arithmetic of the parliament as it is, we're now without question the most influential and powerful group in the parliament.
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